9. The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth belong unto God; He is greatly exalted. PSALM 98. 1. O sing unto the Lord a new song: for he hath done marvelous things: his right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory. 2. The Lord hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen. 3. He hath remembered his mercy and truth toward the House of Israel all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. : 4. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: make a loud noise and rejoice and sing praises. : 5. Sing unto the Lord with the harp with the harp and the voice of a psalm. 6. With trumpets and sound of cornet, make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King. 7. Let the sea roar and the fulness thereof: the world and they that dwell therein. 8. Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together 9. Before the Lord: for he cometh to judge the earth with righteousness shall he judge the world and the people with equity. PART OF PSALM 20. (Read by Minister and people together.) Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we will remember the Name of the Lord our God. We will rejoice in Thy salvation, and in the Name of our God, WE WILL SET UP OUR BANNERS! Minister-Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost: Answer-As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. 3. Major Inderson's Despatch to the Government, dated Steamship Baltic, off Sandy Hook, April 18, 1861, announcing the fall of Fort Sumter, was read by Brevet Brigadier-General E. D. Townsend, Assistant AdjutantGeneral, U. S. A. 4. "RAISING AND PLANTING UPON THE RUINS OF FORT SUMTER THE SAME UNITED STATES FLAG which floated over the battlements of the Fort during the rebel assault, April 14, 1861, by Brevet Major-General Robert Anderson, U. S. A. As soon as the flag is raised, a salute of one hundred guns will be fired from Fort Sumter, and a national salute from every fort and rebel battery that fired upon Fort Sumter. The band will play national airs." Thus it was announced upon the programme for the day. But Heaven forbid that we should pass this wonderful, soul-thrilling event, without more extended notice! As soon as Gen. Townsend had finished reading Major Anderson's Despatch, Sergeant Hart brought forward a new mail-bag, which contained the original flag. The first glimpse of the precious emblem, as it came forth to the light once more from its long and carefully guarded seclusion, was the signal for the most tumultuous cheers. It was made fast to the halyards by three of the crew of the "Juniata," with a beautiful wreath of evergreens, thickly studded with roses and blossoms of the mock-orange, just above it. General Anderson stood by it upon the terrace. Commingled joy and sadness struggled upon his manly face. His hair, thickly sprinkled with grey, was stirred by the winds upon his uncovered head. His erect, soldierly form was the centre of every gaze. For a moment, he spoke not. He seemed wrestling with intense emotion, as if living over again, in that moment, the terrible scenes of four years before, and as if conscious that through the ten thousand eyes of that vast assemblage, the whole nation was looking at him. At length, with subdued voice and scarcely mastered emotion, he spoke as follows: "I am here my friends, my fellow-citizens, and fel. low soldiers, to perform an act of duty to my country dear to my heart, and which all of you will appreciate and feel. Had I observed the wishes of my heart, it should have been done in silence: but in accordance with the request of the Honorable Secretary of War, I make a few remarks, as by his order, after four long, long years of war, I I restore to its proper place this flag which floated here during peace, before the first act of this cruel Rebellion. (Here taking the halyards in his hands, he proceeded.) I thank God that I have lived to see this day, and to be here to perform this, perhaps the last act of my life, of duty to my country. "I thank God who has so signally blessed us, who has blessed us beyond measure. May all the nations bless and praise the name of the Lord, and proclaim 'Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men.'" As the voice of the General, the hero of the hour was borne away upon the air, he grasped the hal yards, and with strong and steady pull, lifted the nation's symbol from the green turf, and as the old smoke-stained, shot-pierced flag, with not a single star smitten or effaced from its fold of blue, rose slowly upward to its native air, and its folds were caught by the ocean breeze as in joyous welcome again, the whole multitude, citizens, soldiers, officers, that filled the interior, and sat upon the sandy slopes and parapet of the fort, by a spontaneous and irrepressible impulse, rose to their feet, waived hats and handkerchiefs with frantic exultation above their heads, and with one long, pealing, deafening, ecxtatic shout of triumph hailed the dear flag until it touched the peak. Senators, Generals, Clergymen, Editors and Civilians upon the platform, to whom the end of the halyards was passed, surged away upon it as though their hands alone were lifting "Old Glory" to it place. The excited multitude wrung each other's hands in joy, huzzahed until they were hoarse, wept and laughed by turns, and when the song broke forth, "The star-spangled banner, O long may it wave! O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!" tears of gladness filled every eye, and flowed down cheeks unused to weeping, and in the seething jubilant throng and melting weltering chorus of five thousand voices, we seemed to discover no inapt type and foreshadowing of the vast multitude which shall stand upon the sea of glass, having the harps of God, and singing "Great and marvellous are thy works, |